Jorge Jiménez Deredia Costa Rican, b. 1954
Arrullo, 2010
Bronze
51 1/8 x 94 3/8 x 57 3/8 in
129.9 x 239.7 x 145.7 cm
129.9 x 239.7 x 145.7 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
“I hold in my heart the memory of the great Pre-Columbian spheres built in Costa Rica more than 2000 years ago and I wanted to make a sculpture that sings...
“I hold in my heart the memory of the great Pre-Columbian spheres built in Costa Rica more than 2000 years ago and I wanted to make a sculpture that sings a lullaby to one of the spheres. That’s why I started to model at first in plaster and later in bronze, this grand sculpture that lulls and caresses a great hammered sphere, a remembrance of my ancestral memory.“
Publications
Jiménez Deredia in Miami: A Bridge of Light, Miami 2022Jiménez Deredia en San José, Puerto Rico, 2019
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